Category: College Football (Page 192 of 296)

      Couch Potato Alert: 12/19

      December 19, 2008 /

      Your guide to what’s on the tube in the sports world this weekend…

      (All times ET.)

      College Hoops

      Sat, 2 PM: #22 Michigan State @ #5 Texas – CBS
      Sat, 2 PM: #7 Xavier @ #6 Duke – CBS
      Sat, 4 PM: #2 UConn @ #7 Gonzaga – CBS
      Sat, 4 PM: #20 Davidson @ #18 Purdue – CBS
      Sat, 6 PM: #11 Syracuse @ #21 Memphis – ESPN

      Wow, with five Top 25 matchups, that’s a great lineup of games. Though I don’t know why CBS can’t schedule them back-to-back instead of having two games on at any given time.

      NBA

      Fri, 8 PM: Lakers @ Heat – ESPN
      Fri, 10:30 PM: Cavs @ Nuggets – ESPN
      Sat, 7 PM: Lakers @ Magic
      Sat, 9 PM: Nuggets @ Suns

      NHL

      Fri, 9 PM: Chicago @ Calgary
      Sat, 1 PM: Washington @ Philadelphia
      Sat, 10 PM: Chicago @ Vancouver – CBC
      Sat, 10:30 PM: NY Rangers @ San Jose
      Sun, 1 PM: Philadelphia @ New Jersey

      College Football

      ESPN and ESPN2 have four snoozer bowls on Saturday — just one ranked team (#16 BYU) among them.

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      Can Tim Tebow be an NFL quarterback? Vol. II

      December 18, 2008 /

      I wrote in early October how Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports didn’t think Tim Tebow could be an NFL quarterback.

      Matt Hinton of YAHOO! Sports disagrees:

      Tim TebowForget about yards, touchdowns, pointless awards, running up the score and the myth that Tebow is just a running quarterback in a college offense: Tebow has NFL size and a first-rate temperament; is extremely mobile (duh); has completed two-thirds of his passes, finished in the top three nationally in touchdown percentage and yards per attempt and put up historically high pass efficiency ratings two years in a row; had the second-lowest interception rate and best TD:INT ratio in the nation this year; and has been consistently deadly on deep throws (as if they still threw deep in the NFL) — in two years, Florida has completed 65 passes of at least 25 yards, or 2.5 per game. He’s led the highest-scoring offense in the SEC two years in a row and is on the verge of winning a second mythical championship in three years. Obviously, his career aspiration is Frank Wycheck.

      Again, I completely believe the gurus when they say Tebow won’t be a first-round pick. This is their job. It is the most counterintuitive job anywhere. My problem is this: The questions that surround Tebow re: his ability to read defenses and adjust to the pro game apply to every college quarterback making the transition. If Tebow hasn’t answered them enough to even project as a quarterback at the next level, then my god, who has?

      Tebow is such a great athlete that I wouldn’t put it past him to make the jump as an NFL quarterback, but there seem to be some question marks about his release and like the article points out, whether or not he can read a pro defense. (But that’s every young quarterback.)

      You can’t blame teams for being ultra-conservative and picky when it comes to drafting quarterbacks. There have been so many cases of failure that no team wants to be the one that wastes a pick a player when the warning signs were there from the start. But again, Tebow is such a good athlete that he might be worth the risk.

      College Football

      Penn State gives JoePa three-year extension

      December 17, 2008 /

      For those that have ever uttered this over the past couple of years, “It’s gotta be time for Joe Paterno to hang it up,” Penn State just answered with: JoePa can hang it up whenever he damn well pleases.

      Joe PaternoAt least we finally know when Joe Paterno will retire. It will be the day he forgot where he left the football stadium. Either that or the day they stop driving him to practice in a golf cart and start driving him in a coffin.

      On Dec. 21, the Man Who Wouldn’t Retire turns 82. But he’s already received his birthday present — a three-year contract extension that will run until he’s 85.

      Hooray for JoePa. He’s found a way to win and a way to remain employed at an age when few others are. And now it’s clear he intends to keep right on coaching — or at least being called a coach — until he dies on the sidelines.

      It’s his choice. I say let him go for it — as long as his team keeps winning.

      Four years ago, Paterno was putting together a 4-7 season on the heels of a 3-9 2003 season and losing records in 2000 and 2001. I was among the blasphemers who said that it was time for the then 78-year-old legend to retire. And if he wouldn’t go quietly, I wrote, Penn State had to fire him.

      I wasn’t wrong then. The game had passed Paterno by, and he wasn’t going to start learning new tricks at his age. It was clear he could no longer do the job for which he was hired — to win football games. He still wouldn’t play freshmen. His offensive and defensive systems no longer worked. He was starting to populate a proud program with aspiring felons. He had to go.

      But he’s gone 11-1, 9-4, 9-4 and 11-1 since then. His Nittany Lions are the Big Ten champs and are headed to the Rose Bowl to play USC. If he wants to stay forever, I won’t object. He’s winning football games, and that’s his job.

      The great thing about Paterno is that he’s never been a coach stuck in his ways. He completely adapted to the spread offense this year and his team flourished. He knows how to roll with the times and as the writer noted, he’s still winning.

      In an age where college coaches leave their teams right before bowl games so that they can pursue better jobs, I think JoePa’s career at Penn State should be marveled at. He’s a legend.

      College Football

      Relax Billy Sims – it’s not your moment

      December 17, 2008 /

      Listen to Billy Sims (a former Heisman winner) after Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford was announced as this year’s Heisman Trophy winner:

      My God, relax already. What was he trying to do – draw attention to himself? Bradford is walking up to receive one of the biggest honors of his life and he’s got some a-hole shouting “BOOMER!” “BOOMER!” 11 times before he even reaches the platform. What an embarrassment.

      College Football

      DeMarco Murray to miss BCS title game

      December 16, 2008 /

      Oklahoma Sooners’ running back DeMarco Murray will have surgery to repair a partial rupture of his left hamstring and will miss the BCS title game against Florida.

      Murray, the Sooners’ second-leading rusher, was injured on the opening kickoff of the Big 12 Championship Game on Dec. 6. The Sooners initially thought Murray had sustained a bruise, but an MRI revealed the injury to be more serious. Surgery has been scheduled for Dec. 22., the university said.

      The school said that according to head trainer Scott Anderson, it will be about five months before Murray is cleared to resume training.

      Murray gained 1,002 yards rushing this season, just eight fewer than team rushing leader Chris Brown. He led the Sooners in all-purpose yards with 2,171, with 395 receiving yards and another 774 yards in kickoff returns, scoring 18 touchdowns.

      Oklahoma has so many weapons, but Murray was a big part of the Sooners’ offense so he’ll definitely be missed. Hopefully Percy Harvin will be healthy enough to play for Florida. It would suck to have two dynamic play makers miss the game.

      College Football

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